skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is it a problem that Microsoft is making and selling fewer of a certain kind of hardware unit?

The problem for them is that PC players buy their games on Steam, not the Windows store, which means they miss on the 30% cut they would otherwise have got had the sale been on Xbox.
Works for me.

WebGPU support is behind a couple flags on Linux: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status
Then support both?
> those machines that used to be brutally efficient at doing what you asked of them.

In a way, that's a natural thing to happen. Computer systems are weird in that we have an extremely good model of how they work at a certain level: "processor will (almost) always process assembly exactly as it should, etc."

When computers first came around, this "computer does exactly as you say" thing was weird to people because there weren't really any such things before computers. People would make small mistakes in their code and wonder why the computer can't "just do the obvious correct thing like any sensible person".

However, as multiple complex software systems interact and build on top of each other, this ability to "understand everything" at one of these "perfect model" levels (e.g assembly, logic gates, state machines...) becomes useless. To work with them, fuzzy models (like those we use for other humans or animals) are more appropriate. Complex software systems will routinely not do the same thing when given the same command. They will change over time, break in incomprehensible und unpredictable ways, and, as the newest addition, argue with you instead of doing what you say. That development makes total sense. At least those systems can now "take a hint".
> Even in Iran, the place for Zoroastrianism, the Towers of Silence I've seen are completely unused for decades.

The fact that Iran is for all intents and purposes an Islamic theocracy with a veneer of democracy on top probably has something to do with this.
Lions mane didn't seem to do much for me. My memory is actually not that bad, though certainly I have seen people with _much_ better memory than mine. I still maintain contact with some of them I met in college, and then later in the various companies. It's just that I deal with so much information and so many streams of it, even writing it down would be a massive chore.

I would pay for a pre-packaged system which could _locally_ and _privately_ make sense of all the emails, PDFs, slack messages, web pages I saw, other documents shared with me, code, etc etc, and make it all easily queryable with natural language, with references back to the sources. Sooner or later someone will make something like that.
Old World Vultures are not closely related to New World Vultures (which are closer to storks). The mechanism which kills vultures in India and Africa does not present the same issue in vultures native to North America.
Boeing the corporation?

These things are ordered by executives as individuals (or small groups with similar exposure), not abstract legal entities. It's not like it was decided at a board meeting, LOL.

And one would expect are carried out by people good at their jobs. After all they're paid top dollar for this service. those people have not only tried it, they have impressive resumes at it to be hired in the first place. Like how corporations in the past used to use the mob to do those things to annoying union leaders.
> So much for everybody yelling how holiest their truth is and how chosen they specifically are

This is a non-sequitur and travel definitely will not solve the issue. People are very well aware of the many other religions even now currently being practiced and are still convinced theirs is correct.
There are famously 3 hard problems in computer science.

1) Naming things
2) Cach3) Concurr invalidation
ency
4) Off-by-one errors
I think one of the largest problems they will face is their consumer not having the same culture as them, and what worked wonderfully for them failing in other orgs.
Looks like someone edited the title of this thread. I assume "Cannot Recursively Improve" was in the old one?
I think you’ve stumbled on the solution there - *something* happened between the 70s and today to address that thing from the 1960s, and it was motivated by capital-seeking. There’s a high probability that it will happen again, and if it does not then it’s likely the market didn’t demand it. Or, the world is just one big corporation and we’re all screwed. One of those.
That's explicitly a fake email address, as it's a special-use domain name reserved by IANA to be used as example/placeholder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com
We're 30-40 developers, and we have just stopped using backstage. We started using it for APIM behind Okta SSO, but all the custom frontend and functionality tweaking needed to make it look nice was daunting.

If we start looking at it again, I'd try a simpler use-case, but definitely interested in trying it again.
Not everyone _wants_ to buy. Why is that so hard for people to understand? I have rented at times in my life and owned at other times. Sometimes owning is not the right choice.
Hazing usually happens once you've joined a group - initiation rituals.
This is really interesting research but I do have some misgivings. Whole languages does not just randomly jump from one population to another - but stories can, it just require a single travelling storyteller.

And what they track is not full stories but “tropes” like woman marries magic animal who is really a man under a spell. It it really impossible that this trope could have appeared indepently in mutiple places?
my justification is that intellectual property is an absolutely ridiculous concept and my actions are driven by my morals and values and not the frequently ridiculous laws of this country
Hopefully one of the areas that LLMs can actually improve. I expect an LLM to fairly accurate parse content from resumes. Maybe we even start using plain text resumes.
100%. Great to have type consistency. Terrible to deal with similar conflicting extended types in the enterprise codebase that make minor changes because someone couldn't figure out a compiler issue 5 years ago.

For the record I don't like the syntax either. Combining ES type spreading with TS type annotation makes for difficult reading in my opinion. Why settle for this bastardized language and not just compile something made to be strongly typed into js?
It’s like Gradle vs Maven for the Java ecosystem.

They do fundamentally the same things but with very different approaches and tradeoffs.

Webpack and Vite are very different approaches to the same problem with different tradeoffs[0][1]

[0]: namely, webpack and its inevitable successor rspack, are way more flexible and arguably powerful but at the cost of higher complexity and more proprietary features like the webpack/rspack specific runtime. Superior in asset handling though, in many respects, and the high level of optimizations you make once you hit a certain complexity threshold is greater than what Vite/Rolluo has currently without extensive custom plugins

[1]: Vite or Rollup is most likely what most projects need. I’d recommend always starting there, as most of the advanced and flexible features of webpack/rspack are very much not what most need
What bothers me more is that there are different underlying mechanisms for - well, different kinds of inflation. Do interest rates really address them all? No.

- "supply chain chaos" is a good excuse to raise prices

- artificially limited supply, will raise prices

- displaced bond supply, will raise equity prices

- world awash in printed money, will raise all prices

- interest rates too low, growth too high, raises prices

- world conflicts, sure why not

And for now there is mostly just one response: raise interest rates. Even that response is somewhat countered by:

- "but wait we must re-shore", floods money, will raise prices

If you posit that simply interest rates were too low, then sure, all other things being equal, you might raise interest rates and wait a while. Crude but not unreasonable. But what when you have a mess of underlying causes (some of which staggeringly large). Just slightly higher interest rates for a few months doesn't resolve all these other causes.

To be fair, it's not all bad: There are still a few now well established deflationary pressures and that's a good thing:

- awareness of competition, willingness to compete

- "low cost countries" manufacturing

- continuing tech advances

- willingness to substitute
A database of 300 tools you can build in a weekend
I have slowly been building out my database to help developers ship faster. How do I do this? I scrap all possible data to find the best tools for you to build in the best markets so you can rank fast. Plus it helps to know you can build something people will use as all tools are vetted and have proven they are needed.
Tesla cant get the gov subsidies for charging stations because of the rules about membership. Without the subsidies they cant compete. Really is as simple as that
> I can even get the errors that OS spits out and test for what exactly went wrong

Coolio, so how do you do this?

I spent several years full-time working with PHP. I ran in to this several times. It's not a small issue. And my entire point is I can't work around it, because as near as I can tell, it just doesn't offer me the required primitives. That was certainly the case when I last looked at this, but that was a long time ago so maybe things changed?
my colleagues' mbp m2 got into recovery mode after sonoma 14.3 update. it is mdm managed and the recovery key got from the IT is not able to decrypt the disk. login accounts tied to the drive also not able to unlock the disk. IT reached out to apple support and waiting response. because of silicon no other methods like in intel, getting into the machine works. does that mean no way of getting the data back? is it possible to install a fresh mac installation on a external disk and access mbp internal disk for decrypting?
Yes, well, but is it the money you're concerned about? If so, you should just as concerned when twenty million people spending $6 each on silly things as when one person spends $120m. Or are you concerned more with aberrant behaviour — "people shouldn't be as extravagant as that guy"?
If you’re using vite you should use Vitest with code coverage. NYC is redundant at that point
Unfortunately companies like Anthropic like to provide web sites that work long enough to obtain your credit card information, then break them in a way that prevents you from unsubscribing.
Mayhaps the rage is appropriate? Perhaps, objectively speaking, this should upset you.

Emotions are not always wrong.
Amazon is an outlier, where each business runs its profit/loss, and higher-ups act as VCs. Wish more companies were like that, but you need to take a lot of bets to make that work.

AWS worked, but the Fire phone turned out to be a write-off.
> I'm never gonna have my non-tech friend do any of this

Who was making that assertion? I certainly wasn't.

In the same way I am never going to tell my non-engineer friends to build their own todo app instead of just using something like Todoist. But if they told me they cared about data privacy/security, I'd walk them through the steps if they cared to hear them.
Charging without a dedicated spot is a pain in the ass. Doesnt matter what your boss says, its much more of an ordeal than the gas station or charging at home. Whether its still worth getting an EV up to you of course, but "not an issue" just is not true
You interviewed on The Dating Game?

edit: Oh - they only had 3 candidates at a time!
1. The point of "getting more legislation done" is not in and of itself a worthy or even desirable goal in general

2. Representatives are already isolated/disconnected from constituents by being in (and of) DC.

3. Long-distance relationships rarely work out well

4. You cannot be a representative of a district that you do not live in.

It would make more sense to make Congress a remote/virtual organization, and let representatives stay home. Physical presence was required historically, it no longer is.
That's why every serious PHP programmer is using a static code analysis tool nowadays.

It would easily catch this. https://phpstan.org/r/a827ff45-4ee2-4bee-8ae0-935832e627b3
TPUs lower XLA into their own instruction set. https://pytorch.org/xla/release/2.3/index.html
It's not illegal to have expired tags on private property, which an apartment parking garage is.
> and it did an OK job, except the formatting and the fonts used were different every time, because it just lifted code from different webpages and recombined it like a massively hungover student

Tangent, but it used different fonts? I can’t imagine how this is possible given how LLMs work under the hood (sampling likely tokens which represent Unicode character sequences - it doesn’t operate on rich text so afaik has no way of seeing or changing font information). Is there something weird happing with the frontend breaking the code/not-code formatting they do (as a cosmetic thing rendering the output)?
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Figma is. Your question would be better answered if you took some time to look at figma, rather than looking at the designs people create with figma.
You're right. I can only hope this sort of short-sightedness bites it the same way it has always bitten groaning lurching too-big-to-fail beancounters running tech companies.
It's a lot simpler than that. Elon is on a mission to show that he is the great inventor and creator: from falcon 9 to Starship, from model 3 to cybertruck, and showing the world that he could make a commercial success of Twitter by catering to the people who never outgrew Ayn Rand.

With nobody to blame but himself, he isn't going to back down.
There’s a meme that we are where we are today in the U.S. starting with the Reagan presidency, and there’s certainly a lot of truth to that. But personally I believe American politics began a long downward trend once television became the primary medium. We’ve all heard how JFK outsmarted Nixon during their televised debate by wearing a blue shirt, because blue showed up as white whereas Nixon’s white shirt showed up as gray. The visuals of candidates began to dominate politics, and people made their judgements based that. Would Reagan have even become president if he wasn’t so good in front of a camera?
Yes, vscodium just works.
The rate of spam to a form is roughly constant over time, whereas the rate of spam to a published email address goes up over time as the site is repeatedly scanned by spam robots and the address added to more and more spammer lists. While spam detection is good, it isn't perfect. As your total volume of spam goes up, so does the amount that sneaks through the filters. Additionally, at a certain point it becomes impossible to look in your spam filter for misclassified real email. Eventually you're overwhelmed and have to change emails. If you're going to publish an email address you have to consider it a burnable resource that you will replace once the volume of spam is too high.

If the author hasn't experienced this, I think it must be because they haven't done the exercise of leaving a live email address on a public website for years.
find the waterkeeper for your local watershed, and use their website as a starting point to learn about how companies pollute your watershed.
Nah, it feels like one of the low-quality content farms that were used to train LLMs. Even GPT-3 wouldn't have inserted a sentence like this one:

> The answer, as CleanTechnica readers who are all above average know, is the flaw in the capitalist model known as “untaxed externalities.”
Exactly.

In Rust, Python and Go you can trace every symbol back to its source by just reading source code. `cat file` would suffice.

In C#, that’s impossible by design, as you say. C# imports work like wildcard imports in Rust and Python, which are wildly frowned upon for very good reason (except for specific cases like preludes in Rust).
aka The Two Santas.
Sounds like ‘AI’ interpreting your email as a cancellation? Although I have now had LLMs parsing my intent for a support question better than the human employee that was appointed to me.
Object Structure in JavaScript Engines
I wrote a little bit more about this here: https://community.info-beamer.com/t/an-updated-approach-to-c...

I’m a huge fan of building minimal self-contained tools, so all of the C programs statically link in the required parser libs (libavcodec/wuffs/freetype) so the resulting binaries don’t require additional dependencies on the target machine. The python wrapping code is rather straightforward as well and is only like 300 lines of code.
40 million flights is big data? That’s a decently sized PostgreSQL database to me.
Thanks for your work Daniel!
While in Rust I can assign string to foo and then update it with int

When do you need to do that? Can you give an example?
Love this! We started on this path over the last two years of something like this (a component system but also combines a standard behavior for "data sources" so that a table or pagination can just automatically read and modify this datasource).

We named it LiveElements and have always wanted to open source it, but it's just not at all clean enough to be put in a state where I'd like others to use it.

Our datasource concept is similar to what fop does (and over time, we'd like to look at migrating over to just use fop since it has been around long enough, and we don't want to have our bespoke datasource stuff).

But we haven't had the bandwidth to clean up and document it yet.

Same with a richer forms engine we've been building where you can just have a compose a type "markdown" which includes changeset validations for markdown formatting, etc.

Or a texture of type "SMS" which gives you a character count and looks at the unicode to see how many SMS segments would be used when authoring an SMS message (which is specific to our app but no reason why others can't benefit)
He isn't a hydrologist?
> Occasionally, limits are set on the <input/> element for file types.

Since this isn't enforced by the presigned PUT URL, you can't trust that the limits have been respected without inspecting whatever was uploaded to S3. You can get a lot more flexibility in what is allowed if you use an S3 presigned POST, which lets you set minimum and maximum allowed content lengths.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/sigv4-HTTPPO...
My email address has been on my public website for at least 15 years, and my spam level is constant and manageable. That may simply indicate that I’m not popular enough to encounter the problem, of course.
Huh, I had never even thought of the tibia and fibula fusing, does this really happen often in Muay Thai? I coincidentally just got back from training at my Muay Thai gym just now. The first few weeks or months of training there’s definitely a lot of welting on the legs, but the shins adapt quickly. I hadn’t heard of the shin bones fusing.
I tried the app and have a bit of feedback

Since it’s designed to have people meet up, it’s important to require a photo. It’s a safety thing.

This seems like it would be the first feature (what photo-swipe is to Tinder) but it would be nice if, when the card is displayed, you heard a sample of the musician’s music. It’s odd that the cards are silent. The entire app should be a sonic experience. Linking to YouTube is fine but why send people away from the app?

Also, sad but true, don’t forget to populate every major city with a few really good looking and sounding fake profiles. There were just 5 blank profiles near me.
OpenAI Bought Chatgpt.com
What if fun/play is just a malfunction of the brain?
Because the banks are in on the scam.

They have to be or they would be forced to report huge losses from marking down loans. Can’t have that screwing up the exec bonuses. Best to let the next guy deal with it, or heck, maybe they will get lucky and the market will turn around!

“Extend and pretend”
Mozilla won't even allow WebSerial to be implemented because it was deemed "too dangerous" - with all sorts of absurd whinging about the devastation that could be unleashed by unsuspecting users allowing a malicious site to access USB serial devices.

When someone pointed out that Chrome has had this functionality for years and the world has not imploded...and has enabled many open source projects and web-based microcontroller IDEs to provide enormous user convenience...the response was a condescending sneer along the lines of "well we actually care about user privacy."

(If Chrome is such a user privacy dumpsterfire, why not implement WebSerial so that people don't have to run Chrome in order to communicate with and program microcontrollers?)

Given they claimed that people's pacemakers and blood glucose monitors would be tampered with if WebSerial were implemented, I'd be shocked if they allowed such low level access to a GPU...
Confusing for who? The difference between BIOS and EFI is dramatic
They could adjust the app store tax to a more reasonable level, such as flat 15%. Even 20% would make it much less severe. But those bean counters never wanted to take charge of this revenue drop and losing competitive price advantage from the 30% fee on other services, so there they are.
It’s not completely different, it’s still mostly the same language with some big additions. If you read their dev blog, you’ll see they fixed a bug that was also present in php a few months ago.
My kid built an 8 bit cpu based on some YouTube videos he found when he was in high school and some cheap circuits he bought on Amazon.

I’d argue that there are more self-taught kids who know low level programming than 20 years ago.

The information to do this is so much more accessible now and LLMs are a very powerful tool in the hands of someone who is curious and motivated.
Tell them you graduated with honors from AP English and your teacher called you "the next Faulkner".

Or tell them that your high school didn't offer English class, learning was student-led and project-based.

Or you took the GED at 12yrs to skip high school and study puffin colonies in Alaska with your aunt.

How are they going to fact-check any of that?
> existential operator,

JavaScript has had this for a bit now and it is really nice.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
They even had electricity thanks to Charlie Watts.
Given user data is folded back into the models, there is a snowball's chance in hell that I would input stuff I'd talk to a therapist about.

When are people going to realize that their interactions with AIs are likely being analyzed/characterized, and that at some point, that analysis will be monetized?
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